proposition nation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because they view the world through a racial lens, white nationalists do not agree with the notion that America is a creedal or proposition nation, meaning one whose societal and cultural norms are based on acceptance of the Declaration of Independence and the other founding documents."
- "During the Cold War, conservative intellectuals, including Straussians and the brilliant Jesuit priest John Courtney Murray, advanced the concept of America as a “proposition nation” that was in conflict with a rival ideological nation, the Soviet Union. This conception of American identity based primarily on shared ideas took hold on the right."